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Author: Phil Getzen, Program Manager, Enterprise Client and Mobility
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System Center 2012 Configuration Manager introduces many exciting new features for deploying software that benefit both administrators and end users. With Configuration Manager, users get a consolidated view of the software status by using Software Center...

The Application Catalog is one of the new and exciting features in the System Center 2012 Configuration Manager. Dave Randall recently posted a great blog post that helps you plan for the Application Catalog deployment and provide a great experience to...

[Today's Post has been contributed by Brian Huneycutt ]
The Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) subsystem has evolved over time to become a key dependency for many applications, Configuration Manager being one of them. We've been intertwined...

This blog post addresses the Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 support questions you’ve been asking about for Configuration Manager and Endpoint Protection.
Question: Which versions of Configuration Manager will support Windows 8.1 and...

Today at a Microsoft event in San Francisco, the Windows team shared new details on the future of Windows in the enterprise, with a first look at Windows 10. Aligned with this announcement , we’d like to begin sharing more of our high level direction...

Support for Windows XP reaches the end of extended support in April 2014. We hope that customers using Windows XP are already well underway with migration projects to a more current platform as waiting for the release of Windows 8.1 later this year will...

In System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1 CU3, operating system deployment of Windows 8.1 is supported by using the WinPE (Windows Pre-Execution Environment) and USMT (User State Migration Tool) from ADK (Assessment and Deployment Kit) 8.1. However...

Introduction
The content library is a new concept that was introduced in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager. In a nut-shell, the content library stores all the Configuration Manager content efficiently on the disk. If the same file is part of...

Author: Aaron Czechowski, Senior Program Manager
This post applies to customers using System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager, or customers using System Center 2012 Configuration Manager SP1 that have installed the Windows Assessment and Deployment...

Welcome to installment #2. In case you missed installment #1 - Getting Started – here’s the link . With the Getting Started blog, you tried a few basic Windows PowerShell cmdlets. I hope you took a bit of time to explore what other cmdlets...

[Today's post had been contributed by Bhaskar Krishnan ]
Software distribution in Configuration Manager 2007 starts with creating a package and ends when the package content installs on the client. However, there are quite a few steps in between and...

You can use Configuration Manager to install the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) 3.0 and subsequent configurations for applications to increase the security of applications on your managed systems. This blog walks you through the process...

Dilip Radhakrishnan
System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager, the market-leading client management product, can integrate with Windows Intune to be a powerful solution which manages PCs and mobile devices both on-premises and in the cloud, all in...

The new Configuration Manager Application Catalog represents a great opportunity for you to deliver self-service application installation to your company’s users. By modeling the applications and publishing them in the Application Catalog, you can...

[Today's post is provided by Carol Bailey ]
By default, an issuing enterprise CA publishes its certificate revocation list (CRL) to locations within the forest. When you are using Internet-based client management with Configuration Manager, there are...

Now that Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 are available, we want to provide an update to our previous post on the plans for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 support in System Center Configuration Manager and Endpoint Protection.
System Center Configuration...

Hi everyone, welcome to the second blog in the series “New Distribution Points in Configuration Manager SP1”.
In this second post I am going to talk about “pull-distribution points”
You may ask why we introduced this new...

You might see content mismatch warnings in System Center 2012 Configuration Manager when content validation runs and determines that there is a discrepancy between the expected list of packages in WMI on the distribution point and the packages in the...

Overview
Historically, a pull-based client communication mechanism is employed in the System Center Configuration Manager line of products. As a result, in large scale enterprise environments, when an administrator initiates a task, it would take minutes...